toad.com In World's First 100 .com Domains

[R.A.Hettinga]

cypherpunks,

Note toad.com, August 18 1987. :-)

I believe John Gilmore started cypherpunks at toad.com in September-ish  
of 1992 or so, after Tim May and Eric Hughes hosted the first  
physical cypherpunks meeting.

After using a buddy's password to the MIT/Sloan student Nexis account  
to research on-line cash payment and reading about cypherpunks there  
in an article by Kevin Kelly in the Whole Earth Quarterly, I  
subscribed to cypherpunks at toad.com, and my first post was in May of  
1994, or so. But, living in Boston, I never went to a physical  
meeting, though I've met lots of cypherpunks face-to-face in many  
other places since...

Seeing pyramid.com was a blast from the past. I first used Unix  
seriously on a Pyramid machine in the first half of 1986 or so. It  
had Gosling's (boo, hiss! Not Pure!) emacs on it, and, a flurry of  
keystroke-recorded macro building and multiple telnet shell windows  
later, I had practically automated my third-shift (real-live blue- 
smock and glass-wall) Production Expeditor job at the University of  
Chicago's Computation Center to about half an hour a night most  
nights. On my way out the door to Boston, I did the last week more or  
less remotely by dial-up. Lots of usenet news read, baseball-bat- 
sized cigars burned, pizza for "breakfast", and self-taught cross- 
harp harmonica playing (not necessarily in that order...:-)) in Mr.  
Stallman's honor as a result of that discovery...

Obligatory Four Yorkshiremen thread to follow here, I'm sure. :-).

Cheers,
RAH
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WORLD'S FIRST .COM

THE LONGEST LIST OF THE LONGEST STUFF AT THE LONGEST DOMAIN NAME AT  
LONG LAST
What was the world's first .com?
Just what would the site with the world's longest domain name be  
without mentioning what the world's first dot com was
Now were sure many of you think you know and some really do know, but  
those that think it was think.com better think again, think.com was  
the third...we think.
The DNS was created in 1984 and in 1985 top level domains were  
defined. The first top level domains were COM, ORG, EDU, GOV, MIL and  
ccTLD.
In April 1985 cmu.edu, purdue.edu, rice.edu and ucla.edu were the  
first registered domain names.
The first .gov was css.gov and was registered in June 1985.
The first .org was mitre.org and was registered in July 1985.
Now for the first .com which was registered on March 15 1985 and it  
was symbolics.com which still happens to be up and running, although  
not much to look at.

Now for the first 100 registered domains:
SYMBOLICS.COM
March 15 1985
BBN.COM
April 24 1985
THINK.COM
May 24 1985
MCC.COM
July 11 1985
DEC.COM
September 30 1985
NORTHROP.COM
November 7 1985
XEROX.COM
January 9 1986
SRI.COM
January 17 1986
HP.COM
March 3 1986
BELLCORE.COM
March 5 1986
IBM.COM
March 19 1986
SUN.COM
March 19 1986
INTEL.COM
March 25 1986
TI.COM
March 25 1986
ATT.COM
April 25 1986
GMR.COM
May 8 1986
TEK.COM
May 8 1986
FMC.COM
July 10 1986
UB.COM
July 10 1986
BELL-ATL.COM
August 5 1986
GE.COM
August 5 1986
GREBYN.COM
August 5 1986
ISC.COM
August 5 1986
NSC.COM
August 5 1986
STARGATE.COM
August 5 1986
BOEING.COM
September 2 1986
ITCORP.COM
September 18 1986
SIEMENS.COM
September 29 1986
PYRAMID.COM
October 18 1986
ALPHACDC.COM
October 27 1986
BDM.COM
October 27 1986
FLUKE.COM
October 27 1986
INMET.COM
October 27 1986
KESMAI.COM
October 27 1986
MENTOR.COM
October 27 1986
NEC.COM
October 27 1986
RAY.COM
October 27 1986
ROSEMOUNT.COM
October 27 1986
VORTEX.COM
October 27 1986
ALCOA.COM
November 5 1986
GTE.COM
November 5 1986
ADOBE.COM
November 17 1986
AMD.COM
November 17 1986
DAS.COM
November 17 1986
DATA-IO.COM
November 17 1986
OCTOPUS.COM
November 17 1986
PORTAL.COM
November 17 1986
TELTONE.COM
November 17 1986
3COM.COM
December 11 1986
AMDAHL.COM
December 11 1986
CCUR.COM
December 11 1986
CI.COM
December 11 1986
CONVERGENT.COM
December 11 1986
DG.COM
December 11 1986
PEREGRINE.COM
December 11 1986
QUAD.COM
December 11 1986
SQ.COM
December 11 1986
TANDY.COM
December 11 1986
TTI.COM
December 11 1986
UNISYS.COM
December 11 1986
CGI.COM
January 19 1987
CTS.COM
January 19 1987
SPDCC.COM
January 19 1987
APPLE.COM
February 19 1987
NMA.COM
March 4 1987
PRIME.COM
March 4 1987
PHILIPS.COM
April 4 1987
DATACUBE.COM
April 23 1987
KAI.COM
April 23 1987
TIC.COM
April 23 1987
VINE.COM
April 23 1987
NCR.COM
April 30 1987
CISCO.COM
May 14 1987
RDL.COM
May 14 1987
SLB.COM
May 20 1987
PARCPLACE.COM
May 27 1987
UTC.COM
May 27 1987
IDE.COM
June 26 1987
TRW.COM
July 9 1987
UNIPRESS.COM
July 13 1987
DUPONT.COM
July 27 1987
LOCKHEED.COM
July 27 1987
ROSETTA.COM
July 28 1987
TOAD.COM
August 18 1987
QUICK.COM
August 31 1987
ALLIED.COM
September 3 1987
DSC.COM
September 3 1987
SCO.COM
September 3 1987
GENE.COM
September 22 1987
KCCS.COM
September 22 1987
SPECTRA.COM
September 22 1987
WLK.COM
September 22 1987
MENTAT.COM
September 30 1987
WYSE.COM
October 14 1987
CFG.COM
November 2 1987
MARBLE.COM
November 9 1987
CAYMAN.COM
November 16 1987
ENTITY.COM
November 16 1987
KSR.COM
November 24 1987
NYNEXST.COM
November 30 1987